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think, so far 69 People have been given this award and only seven of them are women? So have we been discriminating against women in the Phalke award? And now that Asha Parikh has been considered worthy, will it be the turn of other actresses of that era too? And why only Hindi actresses, When will the numbers of Sharda of South and Suchitra Sen of Bengal come?
On the death of Rajesh Khanna a few years ago, Meghnad Desai wrote that he was the last hero of the era when love and hope were left. That is, when people had the belief that things could still be okay. Maybe he wrote it right, because then came the ‘Angry Young Man’ who was born out of hopelessness. With that came the action, the encroachment of vulgarity and vulgarity on the screen also increased while the language started losing its weight. About twenty-five years after independence, the kind of films that were made in Waqf and the songs and music they gave, it slowly went away from us like a dream.
It is because of the music of that era that when you remember Asha Parikh’s film career, instead of her acting, the songs filmed on her first come to mind. These were mostly hit songs and their numbers are so high that one can count. And why only them, there were many such heroes and heroines in those days, if you remember their acting, then their songs will be remembered more.
Asha Parikh, who was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award this time, is a gift of that era. After Nargis and Madhubala, Meenakumari, Vyjayanthi Mala, Nutan, Mala Sinha, Sadhna, Sharmila Tagore were followed by Asha Parikh in the list of popular actresses. In this context, as the Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said, Asha Parekh’s participation will also be considered in bringing Indian cinema to where it is today.
He made his debut as a child artist in a film named ‘Aasman’. Directed by DM Pancholi, the film had music by OP Nayyar. Two years later, in 1954, a filmmaker like Bimal Roy gave her a role in ‘Baap Beti’. Both these films did not work. But at the age of sixteen, Asha Parikh was made heroine by producer Subodh Mukherjee and writer and director Nasir Hussain in ‘Dil De Ke Dekho’. This film, which came in 1957 with Shammi Kapoor, went so far that Asha Parikh came out.
After this, Nasir Hussain has done ‘Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai’, ‘Phir Wahi Dil Laya Hoon’, ‘Third Manzil’, ‘Sapne of Bahar’, ‘The Season of Love’ and ‘Caravan’ i.e. till the next fourteen years Asha Parikh. She retained her heroine. In personal life, he himself was the hero of Asha Parikh, although married and family man. Asha Parikh could not marry him so that no one’s house should be scattered, but in return she herself never married. Nasir Hussain Sahab passed away in 2002. He was not only the uncle of today’s big actor Aamir Khan, but he was the one who launched Aamir in ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’.
Asha Parikh worked with almost all the big actors of her time, except Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor. Apart from Nasir’s films, ‘Upkar’, ‘Shikari’, ‘Do Badan’, ‘Kati Patang’, ‘Mera Gaon Mera Desh’ and later ‘Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki’ were important films for him. His last film was ‘Sar Aankhon Par’ in 1999. He himself made many TV serials. He was given the Padma Shri in 1992. She currently runs a dance academy and a hospital in Mumbai.
Surprisingly, 79-year-old Asha Parikh is only the seventh woman to receive the Phalke award. Before him, singer Asha Bhosle had received this honor in 2000. Imagine, so far 69 people have been given this award and only seven of them are women? So have we been discriminating against women in the Phalke award? And now that Asha Parikh has been considered worthy, will it be the turn of other actresses of that era too? And why only Hindi actresses, when will the numbers of Sharda of South and Suchitra Sen of Bengal come?
